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Never left the Palisades, have you? SF has tons of property crime but much less of the violence you'd find in hellholes like St. Louis, Missouri or Baltimore,
by anonAndOn 5y ago
Never left the Palisades, have you? SF has tons of property crime but much less of the violence you'd find in hellholes like St. Louis, Missouri or Baltimore, Maryland.[0]
[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_by_murder_rate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_by_murder_rate
- imgabe 5y agoThe thing about high murder rates, at least in American cities, is that it's mostly gangs fighting each other over selling drugs. If you're not part of the drug trade, your odds of being murdered are not that much greater than anywhere else (stray bullets are a concern). Property crime, on the other hand, affects a much broader swath of the population.
- jollybean 5y agoOk, so SF doesn't have the same amount of murder as the most rough and ugly ghettos in the Western World? That's good and true, but I'm not sure it helps make an argument.
- anonAndOn 5y agoThe difference is in the level of violence. The property crime is ubiquitous in SF, but it's largely crimes of opportunity. Having something stolen when nobody is looking is very common while being mugged (at knifepoint or gunpoint) is quite rare. I once directly confronted a would be bike thief and he merely walked away. I would not recommend such confrontation in other cities where the possibility of violence was greater.
- jollybean 5y agoThe difference is more stark. In St. Louis and Baltimore it's crime inside the ghetto - very violent. In SF it's homeless, semi-homeless and jerks stealing from the upper middle class who have an odd view on community and crime.